A pioneering survey led by the RSPB has confirmed that Dunlins are breeding across large areas of suitable habitat in the Cumbrian North Pennines providing renewed hope for this Red-listed species in England. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 🥇Subscriber Content 📸David Tipling

Can a viable European alternative to Youtube please get off the ground already? Apart from not wanting to line Google's pockets or use their services any further, *six* sixty second ads in an eleven minute video is the level of overkill we're at now and I'm done with it.

The experiment of bus privatisation has been an unmitigated disaster. Green councillors will campaign for publicly-controlled buses and free bus fares for all people under 22 years. Vote Green on 7 May to boost our buses 🚌

More than 1,000 people, including Irish author Sally Rooney and climate activist Greta Thunberg, have signed a letter in defiance of the ban on Palestine Action. The letter simply states: “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action.” novaramedia.com/2026/04/27/s...

There's a mini jobs bonanza just now at BTO! 🐦 Apply to become our next Scottish Raptor Monitoring Coordinator, Biological Data Manager or Research Support Officer via www.bto.org/jobs Birds Science People; it is a powerful combination – will you be part of it?

1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7

With Reform polling strongly, first-past-the-post could hand power to a party backed by barely a quarter of voters. Tactical voting still matters, but only if it’s based on local data, not national trends. Stephen McNair explains eastangliabylines.co.uk/party-politi...

Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can't sing at their natural pitch phys.org/news/2026-04...

Four day trial starts for two Scottish gamekeepers in relation to alleged killing of Red Kites in the Cairngorms National Park last year. NB: Comments are turned off as criminal proceedings are live ⚖️ raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/04/27/f...

The problem of too many cars isn’t just about the tailpipes. And although EVs seemingly address that issue (or “move” much of it, depending on the electricity source), their increased weight, and the potential increase in size and distance driven (due to #JevonsParadox) make EVs “complicated.”

3. Have any #NEBirding #UKBirding folk noticed a drop off in any of these species on their patches? I would be really interested to know. 🙏🏻

2. Sunderland Academy is usually a hive of activity at this stage in spring but something isn’t quite right at the moment. Ordinarily would expect, Blackcap, Sedge and Grasshopper Warblers to be obvious, yet only single Blackcap and Sedge Warbler territories occupied. #NEBirding #UKBirding

Time to retire the bird table? Flat-surfaced feeders are high-risk zones for spreading disease. Here are RSPB tips on safe feeding. #WildlifeGardening

Journalists killed by Israel in Gaza.

✊ Thousands of protesters in Israel are filling the streets in protest of Benjamin Netanyahu. They are demanding the immediate resignation of Netanyahu and a new investigation into the October 7 terrorist attacks. Bibi isn’t even liked in Israel. @ShadowofEzra

Snipe update! Lots more tagged Snipe have flown from Ireland to Iceland Please read linked thread. Data from @tomasgunnarsson.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social #ornithology

Labour and Tories are just in it for themselves. They care little about real democracy. About what the majority want. And why we desperately need proportional representation more than ever. And why neither of these parties will ever deliver it. Labour promised change but we need change from them.

The Daily Mail aren't even trying to pretend to be normal anymore. Lower bills & invest in our communities. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Morocco just activated the #NoorAtlas Mega Complex — a 20,000-megawatt #solar installation across 45,000 hectares of Saharan plateau. It's capable of generating up to 160 MW, making the first stage alone one of the world's biggest solar thermal power plants unfccc.int/es/node/21533 #ActOnClimate

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

"New research reveals that almost two-thirds of a million #seabirds were killed by a marine heat wave off the coast of Australia in 2023 and 2024, putting their populations under unprecedented pressure." 96% of the casualties were Short-tailed Shearwaters. phys.org/news/2026-04...

Brexit, Farage’s wet dream, 6-8% loss to GDP, £60-90 *billion* annual reduction in public revenues, investment down by 15-18%, trade with Europe reduced by 15%. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

Well, this one wasn't on the agenda! Whilst failing to find any Black Terns this afternoon, a White-fronted Goose appeared in front of me at Killingworth Lake. Very much out of context in late April, and appears to be a site first. Talk about expecting the unexpected! #NEBirding #UKBirding

Well this will have the Brexit folk frothing. But it reflects their failure, indeed the failure of pretty much the whole UK political class to understand the world and the realistic options available - which don't include vast regulatory or trade gains from sovereignty.

Kinnock: “Growing numbers want greater closeness with Europe: not out of sentiment, but out of hard-headed self-interest." Read the piece in The Observer here: https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-ideas/article/the-british-people-know-brexit-has-failed-them-they-also-know-how-to-fix-it-clone-1

In a country bursting with guns, & during an assassination attempt on a President surrounded by armed security, no-one was killed, the assassin wasn’t hit, didn’t shoot anyone, but one security agent shot another bang in the bulletproof vest, presumably not recognising his mate. Weird, huh? 🤔

Fascinating pre-print. Are British Willow Tits really a separate subspecies? Evidence here they're most related to some birds in Alps, but with gene flow and song type inherited from birds on other side of Channel, with isolation/contraction (like now!). Complicated mix of some other populations.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The most recent RELATIVE Oceanic Niño Index (RONI) forecast shows we could be facing the strongest El Niño in observed history!! This could lead to dystopian global climate change impacts over the next 1.5 years. No one is prepared.

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Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Managed 5 of my 7 targets in the Wyre Forest this morning - plentiful Tree Pipit + Pied Fly, 3 singing Redstart, Marsh Tit & a distant Cuckoo but no Wood Warbler or Dipper. Also 2 Mandarin + several Garden Warblers. Sadly the peace too often broken by offlead dogs crashing through the understorey.

A 1°C warmer world will exist only in our memories. This is a frightening prospect. It’s understandable that some take refuge in the promise of future technological solutions. But this moment demands a sober appraisal of the science & tech available *today*. www.technosphere.earth/we-must-deal...

I photographed the 1st pic yesterday whilst out cycling because it was such a beautiful sight & obviously brilliant for pollinators. Today, it's been sprayed with herbicide & the Dandelions are all wilting! What a shocking waste & another unnecessary bit of land doused in poison.

Fascinating how industries all behave the same when faced with negative impacts. Instead of accepting the science and adapting (hey, maybe diversify into wildlife gardening products!), instead they attack the science to prioritise industry profits above all else. Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Peanut!

Washington Hilton, where Trump will soon be arriving for the White House correspondents’ dinner. End the cover-up.

Very telling from the birdfood industry. Despite new RSPB/BTO advice on birdfeeding based on a solid scientific review, and RSPB taking a ££ hit themselves, EVERY major birdfood company is attacking/rejecting the guidance, claiming to know better, putting their incomes over conservation. Shameful.

Criminalisation of climate protesters in UK is counterproductive, research finds Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct action (People of conscience won’t be intimidated) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In the UK, solar farms are becoming bird havens.

The past 30 days of eBird Yellow Wagtail reports in East Norfolk between Sheringham and Winterton. Incomplete (there are some not in eBird), but very grim. 🤷‍♂️🙄 “Migration in full swing”

Selling ultra-high-carbon holidays at a Birdfair as a Super El Niño develops is all kinds of wrong.🤷‍♂️🙄 “Some models show that temperature anomalies could even push past that point next year and go beyond a 2C increase for the first time in recorded history.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No one should be going to the US for football, the Olympics or anything else they don't have to. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Not sure why my govt are friends with these people? Any ideas why your party support these people @labourlewis.bsky.social ? www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...

This is shocking. Desperate people in a desperate situation, this situation is likened to "The Squid Game". Green light/ Red Light, but only this is real life not a Netflix series. This genuinely makes me sick! What has the world become?! Who are we?! Horrific👇 Repost!

Wales has faced threats before – but critics warn Reform UK could rival Henry VIII in undermining its language and identity | Niklas George

Maybe just me, but it looks like he's done that a few times before. Routine, even. The industry cannot be reformed, it won't even try despite decades of this evidence and court cases, so it has to be ended by everyone else. They've got to go.

Whilst pleased that the animal killing sex offender was prosecuted. The sentence is too lenient, a 70 year old sitting on a pavement with a cardboard sign would have been treat more harshly